Judge, 1917-03-31 · page 6 of 28
Judge — March 31, 1917 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This 1917 Judge magazine page contains two distinct sections: **Top article:** A humorous dialogue between "Markowitz" and "Henry Shapiro" debating whether preaching (morality sermons) or practical experience teaches better lessons. They discuss Billy Sunday, a famous evangelist of that era, using examples of labor disputes and manufacturing mishaps to argue that real-world consequences educate more effectively than rhetoric. The satire targets both preachy moralism and labor unrest common in WWI-era America. **Bottom illustration:** Eight women's hats labeled for different 1917 occasions (touring, night use, rainy days, shopping). This satirizes contemporary fashion's impracticality—women supposedly needed specialized headwear for each activity. The joke mocks both consumer culture and women's fashion industry marketing of the period.
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MARKOWITZ AND HENRY DISCUSS PREACHING AND PRACTICE By LOU RAB é¢LJENRY, did you read that Billy Sunday is coming to New York next month?” inquired Max Markowitz, the skirt manufacturer. “Sure, I read it in the Tagedlatt,” philo- sophically replied Henry Shapiro, Marko- witz’s bookkeeper and brother-in-law. “But between me and you, Max, a man what fights the devil only, with warm language can’t do much damage to a feller what’s spent all his life in a hot country. Cold facts will make the devil shiver much quicker than roast tongue sandwiches. I don’t think preach- ing is a staple article; only practice is a good line to connect with. Don’t you——” “Dor-you want to commence a fight with me?” interrupted Markowitz, half seriously. “I am so sick and tired from arguments what I had when I went to see Minnie in the winter country by the pines last Friday, that you can’t get me to say even a woid for a million dollars. Everybody there was holding debates. When they was finished they wouldn’t talk to each other at all. Them arguments made more trouble in the hotel than the moiderer from the prince of Siberia. One wife wouldn’t talk to her husband because when the whole crowd was dis- cussing about who a man should save—his wife or his mother— when he could only save one in a big danger, that big /emech said he would save his mother, when his wife was listening. For touring Night use In another corner, a woman was speeching that a man what marries for money is woise than a moiderer,and a newly wed couple what just got married with ten thousand dollars nadan, got red in the face and after asked the hotel keeper to put them by a different table from that woman. And a man what’s a big cloak manufacturer talked near the cigar case that all union leaders was grafters; and a goil what hoid him, and wore short hair with flat shoes, whose brother was a union lawyer, said that manufacturers was all slave drivers like in uncle Tom’s Cabin, by the moving picktches.” “Didn't you make expenses this week-end like you done last time in ‘Pinochle by the Pines’?” queried Henry. “Sure, I made expenses!” bitterly remarked the skirt manu- facturer. ‘‘Not only J made expenses, but my Minnie made expenses, and the children made expenses, and the maid made expenses—nothing but——” “But didn’t you make them all up by pinochle like before?” “What make up? When make up?” denied Markowitz, gesticulating with hands and shoulders. “What I made up in y that cutthroat Katz make up in the next in’t had’no poker, no pinochle. Pleasure the last three days n three seasons. They was slack; only expenses was working over time. minute, a different ride to a different place. Every second, a different raffle by a different lady. One time it’s a ride with a fancy carriage to the sunken gardens, where they sunk more (Continued on second page following) Rainy days COMBINING BEAUTY AND UTILITY; OR, SOME 1917 MODEL HATS comicbooks.com